Remarks by Allan Branch
83 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
- Play at 1:24:32
“And I'm picking on the sign department. That's just a little tiny. The frustrating part up here is when we get paraded as sacred calves, you want to take all these people, officers off the streets. And we're like, no, we don't. We want to get rid of all airlines. We want to get. We're in some cars that are sitting over here. We're not trying to get rid of all these people. And then every suggestion is a dead end. We're like, we can't do that. And you're like, well, we're not trying to.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:29:18
“hey we want you to have a conversation they're requiring a conversation and being up here you know robbie's trying his hardest to point out like hey maybe we have one copier per floor and and we just seem silly up here but we're trying our best to just be like hey we're trying to help you guys i think that's what it kind of feels like like it may think like it's adversarial”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:32:18
“And I've yet to see a budgetary meeting where there's another city or county where the elected officials go, you cut and this and your percentage of that. That's typically not how that happens. It typically happens to the staff bringing recommendations of what they do because we have no purview into these departments and we have no authority and we don't know how to run them. And so I think that is poor leadership from the city manager's office of that approach, and it should be coming from this office to us of their recommendations. I'm in favor of what Josh is pushing. I think the exercise…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:33:26
“That doesn't sound like a lot of money. To me, each department says, hey, we can do virtual passes to conferences and watch the sessions.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:34:14
“And I think to Robbie's point, this is a really complex organization. We have a CNG station, and everything we point out, people up here, we go, what about this thing?”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:34:25
“And we're like, well, other cities don't have a CNG. And so we just start picking on departments because we're like, what about this? And so this is a very complex organization for a size city that we are. We are in the complexity of like Pensacola, which is like four times the revenue. We don't have the personnel to do all these things. And so we just have things that we suspect should be removed and planned. And we just get dead in rows every time we suggest something. So we, again, are relying on this staff to scrutinize themselves internally and bring back us recommendations. That's what…”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:39:15
“And I have to run. I've got to zip out of here.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026
- Play at 1:39:19
“I have to be somewhere at 3 o'clock. My bad. Keep going. I will watch the video.”
Public · Jul 9, 2026